Submit Your Abstract to EcoCity World Summit 2019
Working towards a sustainable future? Please join Catalytic Communities at this year’s EcoCity World Summit in Vancouver on October 7-11, 2019. We highly encourage our [...]
Updates
CHAPTER AVAILABLE—Rio’s Favelas: The Power of Informal Urbanism
March 1, 2019 Now available “Rio’s Favelas: The Power of Informal Urbanism” chapter by Catalytic Communities’ Theresa Williamson published in [...]
RioOnWatch Dissected by Cambridge Researcher
Olympics organizers consistently push the notion that the Games are good for cities, countries, and the international community. A growing body of literature suggests [...]
2018 RioOnWatch Readers Mapped: 214 Countries Represented
RioOnWatch is our award-winning, bilingual community news site and the heart of Catalytic Communities’ communications strategy. We seek to shift the narrative on [...]
Join Us at Virginia Tech on January 24, 2019
Learn more about hosting Theresa Williamson at your campus [...]
Best and Worst International Reporting on Rio’s Favelas: 2018
This is the latest contribution to RioOnWatch’s media watchdog series on the Best and Worst International Reporting on Rio’s favelas, part of RioOnWatch’s ongoing [...]
A Year-End Letter from Theresa Williamson to Our Supporters
Dear Friends of CatComm, What a year! As 2018 comes to an end, I want to thank all of our past supporters, collaborators and friends and to provide you with a thorough update [...]
#StandWithFavelas—Support Us At This Critical Time
Updated December 27, 2018 We at Catalytic Communities (CatComm) are gravely concerned for the safety of the thousands of favela-based community organizers we have been [...]
Favela Community Land Trust Workshops, Part 3: Presentation to Public Authorities and Final Reflections
In Rio de Janeiro, from August 23 to 27, 2018, Catalytic Communities (CatComm) organized a series of workshops on Community Land Trusts (CLTs), together with a special [...]
Recycling to Stop Landslides: Second Sustainable Favela Network Exchange Visits Morro dos Prazeres
The Sustainable Favela Network (SFN) is a project of Catalytic Communities (CatComm) designed to build solidarity networks, bring visibility, and develop joint actions to [...]